or a 24-pound naval long gun. The opportunity to climb into the rigging like a Napoleonic War-era sailor? Sounds better than serving on a Littoral Combat Ship, which the USS Constitution will ...

The UK has fitted its first Mk 45 Mod 4A weapon system onto the first-in-class Type 26 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigate HMS Glasgow, ending a 45-year-long wait to return to the naval big gun ...

Each rifle barrel is 68 feet long and weighs nearly 119 tons — the largest naval guns ever manufactured by the Navy and the primary armament on the largest Iowa class ships, including the New ...

An ATS-59G with a 2M-3M naval gun. In 14 months of hard fighting since ... There could be hundreds of recoverable ATS-59Gs in long-term storage in Russia. As a bonus, it was built by ...

Each could fire the precision-guided Long Range Land Attack Projectile ... cost overruns doomed the Zumwalts, then the guns themselves. The Navy cut the number of destroyers it intended to ...

The U.S. Navy expanded a contract with BAE Systems, awarding the company more money to upgrade and overhaul the service's Mk ...